bigsnake49
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3 minutes ago, RedSpark said:
BFE?
It is a rather cruse way to say way out in the boondocks ;).
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2 minutes ago, cyclone said:
Has anyone noticed the change of text in the shareable data section regarding Mobile Hotspot, VPN, P2P? It's not shown on this comparison table, but on the regular page under Shop -> Plans -> Unlimited, the new text mentions an auto buy-up of 10GB of data once you reach the 10GB limit instead of a decrease to 2G speeds.
They better come clean on all these limitations on the kickstart page.
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14 minutes ago, derrph said:
I'm going to take it as it does not if it was missing from the page OR Sprint wants to give the image that you will not roam on their network because they have the coverage.
At the bottom of that page it says, "...Excludes taxes, surcharges and roaming." But on the kickstart page it says that it includes international roaming.
Under Legal Disclosure it says, "Unlimited Kickstart: Up to 5 lines. Incl. unlimited domestic calling, texting & data while on the Sprint network. "
I wonder what happens when T-mobile roaming is enabled.
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18 minutes ago, derrph said:
The Kickstart page is live. Nice breakdown on what all you get compared to their UF plan. The only problem I have is the coverage map, It shows the "overall" coverage. I guess if the other carriers are doing it then why not. The map shows coverage everywhere but that might not be the case based on that map.
https://www.sprint.com/en/shop/plans/unlimited-kickstart.html
I visited that page and it even includes international roaming. Does it include domestic roaming? There is no note of that.
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That is an excellent plan as long as you don't want high resolution movies or high FLAC bitrate.
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1 hour ago, danlodish345 said:
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-sprint-corp-m-a-t-mobile-us-exclusive/exclusive-u-s-justice-department-probes-t-mobile-sprint-merger-effect-on-smaller-wireless-companies-sources-idUSKCN1J328E interesting...
Sent from my moto x4 using Tapatalk
I wonder if they will talk to actual smaller wireless companies that Sprint in particular roams on about the effect of the merger on them.
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On 6/5/2018 at 1:02 AM, JThorson said:
Except Delrahim doesn't seem to have an issue with any mergers.
I don't like that he feels like anyone can merge with no repercussions.
It seems that the DOJ has reached out to Sprint and T-Mobile MVNOs about the effects of the merger. Something tells me that one of the merger conditions will be that the pricing structure for MVNO be frozen at the current levels for let's say 3-4years. I also think that they will probably have another condition relating to coverage and 5G deployment targets within 3-4 years.
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8 hours ago, RAvirani said:
Completely agreed. I think good times are ahead for AT&T.
Civilians do have to share the band with Public safety and utilities with lower priority to both. It will definitely help but could get congested at times.
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8 hours ago, greenbastard said:
WCDMA-5 fallback will be huge for At&t if they keep it. VoLTE reliability just isn't cutting it for both T-Mobile and Verizon's lowband LTE. Calls can get too choppy on the upload side at times.
In terms of coverage;
1xRTT BC1 (1900 Mhz) > VoLTE Band 12/13 (700 Mhz)
Probably because 700MHz is not on every site.
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7 hours ago, tyroned3222 said:
Dish doesn't have wireless expertise, but if TMO and sprint merger .. dish could become a 4th player
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They could definitely get some of the Sprint assets, such as enodeBs, remote radio heads, antennas even the EPC.
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58 minutes ago, red_dog007 said:
That's pretty cool. So will spend $1.5~$3billion through 2020 on this network. That will be enough to meet H-Block buildout deadlines? Is that for 30% pop buildout or 70%?
I'm glad they are going at it a lone. Would be cool if they end up a nationwide carrier through their own brand name or an MVNO. I'd imagine once their network gets fairly solid, possibly with the help of roaming agreements, that they will end up directly in the phone business even if they just offer the service to TV customers. It's a hemorrhaging business (traditional TV service that is) and the power of bundling will help out greatly I'm sure.
It's the 70% buildout deadline.
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4 hours ago, mhammett said:
Right, but that doesn't really address my questions (about Google Fi vs. Google Voice feature parity or Sprint rural partnerships).
Here's a reddit post that explains the coverage:
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3 hours ago, mhammett said:
Right, but that doesn't really address my questions (about Google Fi vs. Google Voice feature parity or Sprint rural partnerships).
Google Fi coverage is an amalgam of the coverage of those three companies, including any roaming partners. I am not sure of any other feature parity. Compare the coverage maps.
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9 hours ago, JonnygATL said:
Ha! Why is that? Do tell!
Everything is bigger and better. As a former Texan, I can attest to that!
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On 5/21/2018 at 6:16 PM, mhammett said:
How much of the current feature-set would one have if they just moved over to Google Fi?
I assume that you would lose any of the roaming partnerships that Sprint has, for whatever those are worth. I'm not sure on the current functionality.
You have 3 networks that you can be on depending on the availability and strength, T-Mobile, Sprint, USCC.
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45 minutes ago, derrph said:
https://www.fiercewireless.com/wireless/sprint-cto-explains-how-it-plans-to-win-5g-race
I just find it kinda strange that when Sprint has any network based press releases that they don't really mention too much about the merger and how it will "help." Whereas T-Mobile just about every press release there is a spill about how great the merger is going to be and what it will accomplish. I would have assumed that Sprint would be hitting the pavement just as hard about the merger. It's like Sprint is keeping somewhat of a distance and speaks on the merger when asked and is not putting all there eggs in one basket again.
They're still bragging about 2.5 GHz. Although in that article he does say that 5G will be better with T-Mobile in that they can leverage low, mid and higher bands for an ubiquitous 5G experience.
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As a side effect of the proposed merger, FreedomPop is creating the Unreal MVNO taking advantage of the regulatory environment created by the mergers in extracting pricing concessions. They clame to offer $15/mo unlimited service that is competitive with post paid offers by the two carriers. I am suspicious so I signed up for their beta program :).
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Sorry to resurrect an old thread. But have some news for the horse's (ass, as in donkey) mouth. Charlie Ergen, at the Connect(X) conference gave a few details about their upcoming network:
1. It will cost approximately $10B which is what a brand-new nationwide network costs, which leads one to believe they will not partner with anyone else
2. They have 654 days to deploy Block H spectrum
3. The network will follow the NB-IoT standard and then 5G-IoT standard when that becomes available
4. It will be heavily virtualized with network slicing
5. It will be designed not for smartphones (longer data sessions) but for the shorter data sessions of IoT
6. They don't have the money right now so they operate like a startup
For all the handwaving, don't be surprised if they don't sell network capacity to non-IoT (say MVNO's) at some point.
https://www.fiercewireless.com/5g/ergen-s-5g-buildout-ambitions-for-dish-could-pass-10b
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Even after merging, the new T-Mobile will face an uphill battle. First, AT&T because of FirstNet will have to touch everyone of their sites and so they will probably deploy all their spectrum on their sites. So I presume they will deploy CA, 4x4 MIMO and 256QAM on all their sites. They will also deploy new sites for First Net so they will add their bands on all the new sites. Verizon will have real competition on their hands. New T-Mobile better not bring a knife to a gunfight.
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The former founder of Boost calls for divestitures from the combined company but not of spectrum but of the prepaid brand(s). I'd be OK with that.
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The reason that neither Verizon nor AT&T are worried about this merger is that that even after the merger Verizon mostly and A&T to some degree are going to have twice as many postpaid subscribers as the New T-Mobile. Verizon's markings are still going to be fat and so will AT&T's. It will take a year to get the merger approved then about three years to fully integrate the two companies. Meanwhile the two behemoths will do everything in their power to poach postpaid subs from the new T-Mobile.it is imperative that the resulting company execute on all cylinders. from network integration and expansion to marketing to billing system integration.
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1 hour ago, derrph said:
I think that's because when it comes to 5G everyone is on their own path and are trying to accomplish what they set out to do with 5G and are looking way past just mobile. It's going to be a money maker since it can be connected to so many more things than just tablets and phones. Sprint and Tmo are more concerned with mobile which is not a area of rush for the Top 2.
I wonder how many more people they think they can sign up beyond mobile. I know that everybody things there are a lot of money to be made in IoT but that is a totally unproven business case. From my previous forays in this area I can tell you that it is not a money maker because there is not a lot of data being passed back and forth. Maybe in 20-30 years when everybody is driving self driving cars and data needs to be exchanged between cars and the Traffic Controller there might be some money to be made but meanwhile, no.
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Verizon also does not care about the merger.
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It seems that AT&T will not contest this merger:
https://www.fiercewireless.com/wireless/at-t-s-donovan-t-mobile-sprint-combo-we-won-t-contest-it
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Marcelo Claure, Town Hall Meetings, New Family Share Pack Plan, Unlimited Individual Plan, Discussion Thread
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